Feminist birds of passage: Feminist and migrant becomings of Latin American women in Spain

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-213
Author(s):  
Cecilia Gordano Peile
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Ethnic Origin ◽  
Subject Formation ◽  
American Women ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Rich Diversity ◽  
And Gender

This article focuses on the articulations of migration and gender, from the vantage point of women whose feminist experiences have been both enriched and challenged by migration and vice versa. It presents the results of a qualitative research study of five Latin American women who migrated to Barcelona and felt close to feminisms. The author draws on feminist and postcolonial approaches to migration studies that highlight the active role women play in migratory processes as well as how intersectional variables of ethnic origin, socioeconomic class, education and family contexts are articulated, configuring different power relations and resources in specific sociohistorical contexts. The results challenge widespread stereotypes about migrant women by revealing a rich diversity of profiles, motivations and migratory pathways, as well as how informants’ experiences of social activism across national borders have transformed their subject formation processes and re-positioned them as active subjects of political action.

scholarly journals Decolonial Approach to Leadership: Latin American Women in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisol D'Andrea
Keyword(s):  
Women Leaders ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
American Women ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Greater Toronto Area ◽  
Leadership Experiences ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Decolonial Feminism

The absence of Latin American women in positions of authority and power is indicative of the career limitations they face. This paper examines the leadership experiences of Latin American women who are leaders and reside in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). I apply a decolonial feminism approach and the concept of intersectionality to examine the intersection of race, gender, and class. Also, I employ qualitative research using 10 in-depth semi-structured, individual interviews. I find that current Latin American women leaders still face barriers that prevent them from continuing their advancement in leadership positions. These barriers include racial and gender discrimination, negative stereotypes, scarcity of networks and mentors, and the struggle to achieve a work-life balance.

Latin-American Women Writers: Class, Race, and Gender

Hispania ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 808
Author(s):  
Denis L. Heyck ◽  
Myriam Jehenson
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Women Writers ◽  
American Women ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Latin American Women Writers

Indigeneity, Gender, and Resistance: Critique and Contemporaneity of Bolivian Anarchism in the Historical Imagination of Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-53
Author(s):  
Geoffroy de Laforcade
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Revolutionary Movements ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 1960S

From the 1920s to the 1940s, Bolivia was a hub of Andean transnational solidarities rooted in artisanal trades, and spearheaded by migrant workers whose cultural, educational and social activism reflected a mosaic of influences from older militant traditions in neighbouring countries. Virtually absent from existing overviews of Latin American anarchism in English, Bolivian anarchism engaged extensively with autonomous indigenous and communal movements, and is therefore a distinctly revealing case from which to evaluate the engagement of anarchists with indigenous majorities in the Andean space where they lived. This article explores the work of sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, whose dense tapestry of pioneering scholarship on the intertwining horizons of conquest, rebellion, republicanism, resistance and populism in Bolivia over five hundred years includes profound and nuanced assessments of indigeneity and gender, pointing to the need for a more nuanced understanding of how racialised identities are defined in society, and the ways in which they are deployed discursively by revolutionary movements. From the rebellions Tupac Katari and Pablo Zárate Willka in the late 19th century, the subsequent quest of Aymara 'caciques apoderados' for allies among organized artisans and the urban poor, struggles of anarchist women, independent agrarian trade unionism, and the Katarista movement of the 1960s and 1970s to the popular insurgencies of the past three decades, Cusicanqui's work threads together archival, oral and iconographic history while enlisting the participation of popular movements in an ongoing critique of the legacies of internal colonialism, racialization, patriarchal inheritances, and languages of resistance in Bolivia; as well as the lessons of struggles for autonomy, freedom and decolonization in which anarchists and the movements they subsequently influenced took part.

Latin-American Women Writers: Class, Race, and Gender

1997 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 130
Author(s):  
Beth E. Jorgensen ◽  
Myriam Yvonne Jehenson
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Women Writers ◽  
American Women ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Latin American Women Writers

Latin-American Women Writers. Class, Race, and Gender

Chasqui ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Salvador A. Oropesa ◽  
Myriam Yvonne Jehenson
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Women Writers ◽  
American Women ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Latin American Women Writers

An Introduction to Gender and Representation in Latin America

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Latin American Politics ◽  
Gender And Politics ◽  
Women's Representation ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Women’S Representation ◽  
And Gender

In this introductory chapter of Gender and Representation in Latin America, Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer argues that gender inequality in political representation in Latin America is rooted in institutions and the democratic challenges and political crises facing Latin American countries. She situates the book in two important literatures—one on Latin American politics and democratic institutions, the other on gender and politics—and then explains how the book will explore the ways that institutions and democratic challenges and political crises moderate women’s representation and gender inequality. She introduces the book’s framework of analyzing the causes and consequences of women’s representation, overviews the organization of the volume, and summarizes the main arguments of the chapters.

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